Author: United States. President's Science Advisory Committee. Security Resources PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Deterrence and Survival in the Nuclear Age (the "Gaither Report" of 1957)
Author: United States. President's Science Advisory Committee. Security Resources PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Deterrence and survival in the nuclear age
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense ProductionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
Deterrence and Survival in the Nuclear Age (the "gaither Report" of 1957)
Author: Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age
Author: United States. Science Advisory Committee. Security Resources PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Deterrence & Survival in the Nuclear Age
Author: United States. President's Science Advisory Committee. Security Resources PanelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deterrence (Strategy)
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Strategic Thinking, Deterrence and the US Ballistic Missile Defense Project
Author: Reuben SteffPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317049454
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
A systematic critical survey of American strategic thinking and the strategic culture in which it is formed. In particular, this book seeks to interrogate the theory and strategy of nuclear deterrence, and its relationship to the concept of missile defence. Drawing widely on the theoretical literature in international relations and strategic studies, it identifies the key groups that have competed over America's nuclear policy post-1945 and examines how the concept of missile defence went through a process of gestation and intellectual contestation, leading to its eventual legitimization in the late 1990s. Steff sheds light on the individuals, groups, institutions and processes that led to the decision by the Bush administration to deploy a national missile defence shield. Additionally, Steff systematically examines the impact deployment had on the calculations of Russia and China. In the process he explains that their reactions under the Bush administration have continued into the Obama era, revealing that a new great power security dilemma has broken out. This, Steff shows, has led to a decline in great power relations as a consequence.
Rearming for the Cold War, 1945-1960
Author: Elliott Vanveltner ConversePublisher: Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Book Description: The first publication in a multivolume series on the history of the acquisition of major weapon systems by the Department of Defense, author Elliott Converse presents a meticulously researched overview of changes in acquisition policies, organizations, and processes within the United States military establishment during the decade and a half following World War II. Many of the changes that shaped the nature and course of weapons research and development, production, and contracting through the end of the century were instituted between 1945 and 1960; many of the problems that have repeatedly challenged defense policymakers and acquisition professionals also first surfaced during these years. This study is the first to combine the histories of the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the military services into one account. The volume is organized chronologically, with individual chapters addressing the roles of OSD, the Army, Navy and Air Force in two distinct periods.
Civil Preparedness Review: Industrial defense and nuclear attack
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Defense ProductionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assistance in emergencies
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The Rise and Decline of the American Century
Author: William O. Walker IIIPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501726153
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation’s leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-II era proponents of the American Century faced a daunting task. Even so, Luce had articulated an animating idea that, as William O. Walker III skillfully shows in The Rise and Decline of the American Century, would guide United States foreign policy through the years of hot and cold war. The American Century was, Walker argues, the counter-balance to defensive war during World War II and the containment of communism during the Cold War. American policymakers pursued an aggressive agenda to extend U.S. influence around the globe through control of economic markets, reliance on nation-building, and, where necessary, provision of arms to allied forces. This positive program for the expansion of American power, Walker deftly demonstrates, came in for widespread criticism by the late 1950s. A changing world, epitomized by the nonaligned movement, challenged U.S. leadership and denigrated the market democracy at the heart of the ideal of the American Century. Walker analyzes the international crises and monetary troubles that further curtailed the reach of the American Century in the early 1960s and brought it to a halt by the end of that decade. By 1968, it seemed that all the United States had to offer to allies and non-hostile nations was convenient military might, nuclear deterrence, and the uncertainty of détente. Once the dust had fallen on Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency and Richard M. Nixon had taken office, what remained was, The Rise and Decline of the American Century shows, an adulterated, strategically-based version of Luce’s American Century.
Strategy and Nuclear Deterrence
Author: Steven E. MillerPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400856124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This book of selections from the distinguished journal International Security speaks to the most important question of our age: the deterrence of nuclear war. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.